Weekend Editor
weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz
<p>Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Now blogging about stats in the news.</p><p>Avatar: convergence basins in the complex plane of Newton's algorithm searching for the cube roots of unity. (After a NYT column by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@stevenstrogatz" class="u-url mention">@<span>stevenstrogatz</span></a></span>, long ago.)</p><p>Header: Quote from GK Chesterton, London Daily News, 1905-Aug-16 on epistemic humility and the ability to say "I am wrong" as the foundation of idealism.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag
Posts
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Post #4423178
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117049561381886953 "Claiming authority over limit set by Congress": basically, rule of law matters so little to Republicans that Trump can do whatever and dare the rest of us to stop him if we can.
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Post #4227913
Today&#39;s blog post: A seasonal song for this moment in American politics. 99 days to the primary, 99 days remain. Mark 1 down, canvass your town, 98 days to the primary! My cats also have opinions on this subject. They are correct. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/99-days-to-primary/
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Post #4227912
RE: https://swiss.social/@paulfoerster/116986317219807954 Voting Republican is evil. Not voting is being complicit with evil. Voting 3rd party is being complicit with evil AND bad at math.
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Post #1950611
Jack Hardy, &quot;May Day&quot;. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylFlOlveV0
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Post #1596966
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116449728786884001 I see the innumeracy of the rulers has not gotten any better in the last couple of years. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/math-illiterate-rulers/
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Post #628916
RE: https://universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/116206557203756295 A few economists disagree. The loudest of them tend to get eaten by curious ghost cats.
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Post #499539
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134590715834642 Now *there&#39;s* a turn of phrase: &quot;What used to be bicycles for the mind are now subscription-based pickup trucks driven by Nazis in a neverending demolition derby.&quot;
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Post #313131
Today&#39;s blog post: Prasad/FDA refuse to review Moderna mRNA flu vax. Despite previous FDA agreement, he wants high-dose vax as control. That&#39;s (a) medically inappropriate for trial popln under age 65, (b) not legally available in Europe, where trial was done. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/fda-nixes-mrna-flu-vax/
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Post #313130
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116074101449226734 Checks out.
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Post #313129
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116074979762926656 Quantum mechanics done at the typeface level.
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Post #82317
@cstross@wandering.shop I wrote a bit about the analemma, and why the day of earliest sunset is not the same as the shortest day. It looks like Edinburgh should have had its earliest sunset Dec 15 or 16. So unless you're an early riser, it's getting better now. Slowly, of course, but better. https://www.someweekendreading.blog/analemma-2025/